bed

[[t]bɛd[/t]]

n. v. bed•ded, bed•ding

1) fur a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well

2) fur the mattress and bedclothes together with the bedstead of a bed

3) fur the bedstead alone

4) the act of or time for sleeping

5) the use of a bed for the night; lodging

6) the marital relationship

7) any place used for sleeping or resting

8) bot

a) an area of ground in which plants, esp. flowering garden plants, are grown

b) bot the plants growing in such an area

9) geo the bottom of a lake, river, sea, or other body of water

10) an area on the bottom of a body of water abounding in a particular kind of plant or animal life:

an oyster bed[/ex]

11) a piece or part forming a foundation or base:

tuna on a bed of lettuce[/ex]

12) gel a layer of rock; stratum

13) civ a foundation surface of earth or rock supporting a track, pavement, or the like

14) bui

a) the underside of a stone, brick, slate, tile, etc., laid in position

b) the layer of mortar in which a brick, stone, etc., is laid

15) pri the flat surface in a printing press on which the form of type is laid

16) trs the body or, sometimes, the floor or bottom of a truck or trailer

17) zool. flesh enveloping the base of a claw, esp. the germinative layer beneath the claw

18) to provide with a bed

19) to put to bed

20) bot to plant in or as if in a bed

21) to lay flat

22) to place in a bed or layer

23) to embed

24) to have sexual intercourse with

25) to have sleeping accommodations

26) gel to form a compact layer or stratum

27) archaic to go to bed

28) phv bed down

to retire to bed

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- get up on the wrong side of the bed go to bed with make a bed

Etymology: bef. 1000; ME; OE bedd, c. OFris bed, OS bed(de), OHG betti, Go badi